Protester Cannot Substitute Experience of Proposed Personnel for Education Requirements Without Explaining Deviation in Proposal; GAO B-413717, ManTech Advanced Systems International Inc.

Protest challenging the evaluation of task order proposals is denied, where the protester’s proposed personnel did not meet the educational or experience qualifications required by the solicitation and the protester did not explain that it proposed to substitute certain experience for these qualifications, as allowed by the underling IDIQ contract.